Atheta (Pseudota) pseudoklagesi Klimaszewski and Webster

Klimaszewski, Jan, Chandler, Donald S., Davies, Anthony & Bourdon, Caroline, 2023, Aleocharine rove beetles of New Hampshire, USA: new taxa and new records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 5364 (1), pp. 1-141 : 38

63. Atheta (Pseudota) pseudoklagesi Klimaszewski and Webster

(Illustrations in Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. Webster et al. 2016. Klimaszewski et al. 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021.

Distribution. Nearctic, transcontinental in Canada, recorded from A/S ( Klimaszewski et al. 2021). Canada: AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, QC, SK, YT. USA: AK, NH (NSR).

Collection and Habitat data. Present from May to August in NH; all specimens were taken by flight intercept traps in a boreal forest near the Quebec border and in an old-growth silver maple floodplain forest. In Canada found in mature and old-growth coniferous, mixed, and deciduous forests, and in a wet alder swamp. Adults taken in coral fungi on a Populus log, fleshy polypore fungi at base of a dead standing Populus , in decaying gilled mushrooms, in mushrooms, in bracket/gilled fungi, and under bark of red spruce and dead aspen; in QC collected using pitfall traps, Luminoc pit/light traps, and flight intercept traps ( Webster et al. 2016, Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Coos Co.: Norton Pool, 3 mi NE East Inlet Dam, 10–26.V.1986, 25.VII– 7.VIII.1986, D.S. Chandler, FIT, 2 males. 1 mi NE East Inlet Dam, 10–26.V.1986, 27.V–11.VI.1986, D.S. Chandler, FIT, 4 males. Grafton Co. : Bedell Bridge S. P. @ Oliverian Brook, 20.VIII–8.IX.1992, D.S. Chandler, FITrap, 1 female, 1 identification not certain .